Moses Nicholls

Moses Nicholls (1692-) was a Jamaican pirate during the Golden Age of Piracy.

Biography
Moses Nicholls was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1692 to a family of slaves, and he escaped slavery to become a pirate during his late teens. Nicholls got into a fight with British Army troops on a beach in Kingston one day in April 1717, and the pirate captain Edward Kenway rescued him after killing the soldiers. Nicholls agreed to become a member of the crew of the Jackdaw, Kenway's pirate ship, expressing his gratitude to Kenway.